BFR, surgery & your heart - the cardioprotective ability of Blood Flow Restriction

Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode.

I've enjoyed putting together this short mini-series on the collective ability of using BFR in multiple different scenarios to assist with improving the operative outcome - in this case knee surgery.

Today's episode is around the cardioprotective ability of using Blood Flow Restriction prior to surgery. In particular, perioperative myocardial infarction is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality after major non-cardiac surgery.  Therefore the ability to reduce myocardial injury and other ischaemic complications of surgery holds great benefit. 

Using BFR in this instance, is a great option as traditional methods to reduce the risk are usually pharmacologically based which although the may reduce the risks they do have side-effects in some patients.

The article is pretty heavy with mechanisms so if you are interested please download the article. 

British journal of anaesthesia, 99(5), 611-616. Walsh, S. R., Tang, T., Sadat, U., Dutka, D. P., & Gaunt, M. E. (2007). 

If you haven't yet got a set of BFR cuffs please head to my website to buy your own and if you have any questions please ask as I really want to ensure you get the best use of Blood Flow Restriction for you. Head to https://www.sportsrehab.com.au

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Thanks for listen

Chris